Mark Gillespie

The Ayrshire farm where Scotland’s legendary bard, Robert Burns, once worked the fields has now become intertwined with another Burns legacy: his love for whisky.… Read More

Why do we drink, even though we know drinking too much isn’t good for us? Is it human nature…perhaps in our DNA? Since there are… Read More

Is Tennessee Whiskey Bourbon? That argument has divided whisky lovers for years, but Nicole Austin says it is. She’s the head distiller and general manager… Read More

By Mark Gillespie June 15, 2021 – The trade dispute over government subsidies to Airbus and Boeing that spilled over into the whisky industry has been… Read More

June 15, 2021 – Think back to February 3, 1940. World War II was raging in Europe, but British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had not… Read More

By Mark Gillespie June 15, 2021 – Single malt whiskies have been a mainstay of the whisky world for decades, but in one of the… Read More

Earlier this year, Japan’s whisky makers agreed on a voluntary definition for “Japanese Whisky” after decades of quietly blending their own whiskies with imported whiskies… Read More

Brendan McCarron had a safe, secure job as Dr. Bill Lumsden’s hand-picked “heir apparent” on the Glenmorangie and Ardbeg whisky creation team, but he was… Read More

June 1, 2021 – 100 years ago today, White supremacists went on a rampage through the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Greenwood had become known… Read More

Before Prohibition, New York was known for its Rye whiskies distilled from locally-grown grain. Decades later, a new generation of New York State craft distillers… Read More

By Mark Gillespie May 24, 2021 – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged to end Great Britain’s import tariff on Bourbon and other American whiskies… Read More

Distillers depend on the environment for every ingredient that goes into making whisky and are under increasing pressure to reduce the environmental impact of making… Read More